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July 28, 2014, Monday

PRESTON STURGES'S 1942 ''Palm Beach Story'' may have the most inscrutable beginning of any comedy ever made. We see two Claudette Colberts, one gagged and bound and wearing little more than a slip, the other dashing out the door in a wedding gown to...

Preston Sturges's most creative period lasted a mere eight years -- from his 1940 directorial debut, ''The Great McGinty,'' to ''Unfaithfully Yours'' in 1948 -- but that short time was enough to yield perhaps the most profound comic vision of...

December 17, 2004, Friday

Released in 1944 after the censors had held it up for a while, Preston Sturges's Christmas miracle movie is like no other ever made: alternately boisterous and grim, ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' mixes pathos with fits of hysterical slapstick and...

November 2, 2003, Sunday

The right to self-mockery may not be enshrined in the Constitution, but it is surely a part of the American birthright and perhaps also a source of resilience and strength. Perhaps nobody in Hollywood has ever made such merciless, exuberant fun of...

May 10, 2002, Friday

Diane Lane Aimed Higher And Got There Diane Lane has been appearing onstage since she was 6, when she joined the children's theater workshop at La Mama in the East Village, and in the movies since she was 14, when she appeared -- with Laurence...